Just before we went on holiday, Eben gave an hour’s talk at the Hacker News London Meetup. (Check out their community too – we’re big fans.) You’ll have heard some of what he has to say before, but there’s really interesting stuff here on raising capital, supply and demand, the charity model – and some brilliant questions which I don’t think we’ve ever answered in public before.

It’s an hour long, but it’s a talk that is worth running in the background just so you can listen to it while you’re doing whatever else it is you do to fill an hour (which is exactly what I’ve been doing while I answer email). I really, really recommend this one. In particular, Eben has a bit to say in the Q&A about the really nice interactions we’ve been having with Richard Stallman, which I know will make some of you stand up and pay attention.

I love Hacker News. The discussion on things hardware and software there tends to be of much higher quality than you find on places like Reddit (no offence to Reddit, which is awesome for a whole different variety of reasons); they should get more attention than they do. (And I should have put a couple of links into the blog post – I’m running around like a blue-arsed fly today trying to get on top of things from last week. Heading over to fix it now.)

Most of the time – but I kind of felt he needed a bit of a break last week, so they got done for him. (I should point out to all those weirdos out there interested in our domestic habits that Eben did the laundry this morning before I’d even woken up.)

According to the local ‘experts’ (Broadcom colleagues who are each very knowledgeable in their field) it is technically easier to connect a display then a camera. The camera was done first because you can already get an image out of the Pi but not yet in. Also we knew that we had to choose from a very small set of cameras. But there are soooo many displays out there.

Thanks for posting this Liz! I’m looking forward to watching this when I get home later. I’m especially interested in hearing about your interactions with Stallman around RP. Stallman’s been a kind of hero of mine for a long time. I suspect Eban’s going to become one too.. :)

If it’s on vimeo, can’t you go to the site and click “download” whenever you’re ready for it?
Maybe it’s even a normal link. so you can “copy link location” and use “wget” to download it in an at-job ?